It's still there even in 7, I believe, but it changed from print.com to print.exe at some point. I never used it back in the day, because I didn't need the printing to be in the background (so I just piped the file to LPT1)
When I started using linux, maybe around 8 years ago, you still had to manually mount / unmount volumes, which never bothered me although I understand it had to be changed for Joe User. This is back when KDE was the Kool Desktop Environment, at the time I used WMaker and absolutely loved it. In WMaker, there was a small widget to mount / unmount volumes, and it always worked flawlessly - one click to mount, one to unmount, never any trouble. But then as time went by auto-mount appeared, I started to use KDE / Gnome, and for years it was horrible. CDs would fail to be mounted, the CLI command wouldn't work, or unmounting would fail and the CD couldn't be ejected - it was terrible. So personally that was the tool I really missed.
(I'm assuming automount works fine nowadays, I haven't used linux in years)
For keeping someone informed? I see a lot of people sending an e-mail and then forwarding it to someone just saying "fyi".... Why not just bcc that someone?
You may have a right to destroy your own data, but I don't believe a corporation should have that right. Destroying corporate data is not the same as personal data, in my opinion.
On Android (htc magic, android 1.5), it's actually a slight improvement from the previous version. Unfortunately the site still fails to be readable, it seems it can't deal with the limited resolution.
I really wish there was a decent way to read slashdot on my phone, but it's just too uncomfortable:-/
I use both gmail and yahoo mail, but I don't see why yahoo's tabs are a plus. I got tabs right in the browsers - so even with gmail I can easily open several mails in different tabs (and bookmark them as well, a great feature).
Your argument is perfectly logical, and that's where it fails. The point of sending people very soon would be to get everyone else excited, and to create a need to continue once we start. If it was just for technology and taking the right approach, we would already have colonies in space. But we need something to drive us, to get us excited.
You're lucky ; I was also twelve when I heard of this, and I was so fascinated I wanted to show this proof to my math teacher. He just flatly told me that I was wrong!!
And that's how this discussion, like the previous one on the same topic, ends up having a shitload of comments about guns, safety, laws, and nothing that comes even close to actually trying to answer the questions. Sigh.
On a side note, I would argue that obese New-Yorkers are probably healthier than obese people from where walking is an alien notion. I mean they probably enjoy comparatively lower heart rates and things like that in spite of their high percentage of body fat.
That's the main reason I insist that Pluto is still a planet.
I love the idea that when I grew up we knew of "only" nine planets in the solar system and that we've now discovered more. It sounds better to me than the idea that we were mistaken and have incidentally found a few more lumps of rock.
I understand and admit the reasoning behind it, it's just a matter of semantics I'm arguing about.
Slashdot Mirror
It's still there even in 7, I believe, but it changed from print.com to print.exe at some point. I never used it back in the day, because I didn't need the printing to be in the background (so I just piped the file to LPT1)
When I started using linux, maybe around 8 years ago, you still had to manually mount / unmount volumes, which never bothered me although I understand it had to be changed for Joe User. This is back when KDE was the Kool Desktop Environment, at the time I used WMaker and absolutely loved it. In WMaker, there was a small widget to mount / unmount volumes, and it always worked flawlessly - one click to mount, one to unmount, never any trouble. But then as time went by auto-mount appeared, I started to use KDE / Gnome, and for years it was horrible. CDs would fail to be mounted, the CLI command wouldn't work, or unmounting would fail and the CD couldn't be ejected - it was terrible. So personally that was the tool I really missed.
(I'm assuming automount works fine nowadays, I haven't used linux in years)
For keeping someone informed? I see a lot of people sending an e-mail and then forwarding it to someone just saying "fyi".... Why not just bcc that someone?
You may have a right to destroy your own data, but I don't believe a corporation should have that right. Destroying corporate data is not the same as personal data, in my opinion.
On Android (htc magic, android 1.5), it's actually a slight improvement from the previous version. Unfortunately the site still fails to be readable, it seems it can't deal with the limited resolution.
:-/
I really wish there was a decent way to read slashdot on my phone, but it's just too uncomfortable
In case you didn't know, there's a "Labs" feature called Nested Labels, which allows you to have hierarchical structures.
True, although the actual plural is indeed viruses. See http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/virus#Usage_notes
I use both gmail and yahoo mail, but I don't see why yahoo's tabs are a plus. I got tabs right in the browsers - so even with gmail I can easily open several mails in different tabs (and bookmark them as well, a great feature).
Your argument is perfectly logical, and that's where it fails. The point of sending people very soon would be to get everyone else excited, and to create a need to continue once we start. If it was just for technology and taking the right approach, we would already have colonies in space. But we need something to drive us, to get us excited.
Religion makes it a virtue to believe without proof. That greatly facilitates evil, imho.
+1 refreshingly appropriate use of tied old meme
But...
ONCE AND FOR ALL!
You're lucky ; I was also twelve when I heard of this, and I was so fascinated I wanted to show this proof to my math teacher. He just flatly told me that I was wrong!!
Look it up. There's a 99% probability that the car is behind the other door.
Me too. Finding out about it has helped, as it's easy to feel guilty about these things.
And that's how this discussion, like the previous one on the same topic, ends up having a shitload of comments about guns, safety, laws, and nothing that comes even close to actually trying to answer the questions. Sigh.
Or the engineer did think about security, but the managers & accountants said no ;-)
On a side note, I would argue that obese New-Yorkers are probably healthier than obese people from where walking is an alien notion. I mean they probably enjoy comparatively lower heart rates and things like that in spite of their high percentage of body fat.
It's even faster to use a motorcycle, and requires almost no effort at all.
It does if your window is maximised, because it makes aiming much easier (can't miss them by going too far up, fitt's law and all that...)
That wouldn't work, people like to insert things into other things the wrong way around.
Microsoft is in such a bad shape, it would be good for them if people thought Bill Gates still worked there :-)
But if you were locked up anyway, you'd probably be glad to have the ugly fat chick around.
Now there are 13 (and counting).
That's the main reason I insist that Pluto is still a planet.
I love the idea that when I grew up we knew of "only" nine planets in the solar system and that we've now discovered more. It sounds better to me than the idea that we were mistaken and have incidentally found a few more lumps of rock.
I understand and admit the reasoning behind it, it's just a matter of semantics I'm arguing about.
Un-fucking-believable. Sometimes, I'm really glad to be single. Wow.